WHITE VIOLET
“STAY LOST” SONG PREMIERE PREMIERE ON PASTE
SOPHOMORE LP STAY LOST OUT SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
VIA NORMALTOWN RECORDS
NEW TOUR DATES
July 25, 2014 – White Violet premiered the title track off their upcoming LP Stay Lost, as well as
a live video of the band performing the song, yesterday on PasteMagazine.com. The song can
also now be streamed and shared via HERE, while the video is also available HERE. Stay Lost,
the Nashville-by-way-of-Athens band’s sophomore album, will be released on September 23,
2014 via Normaltown Records. Last month, Consequence Of Sound debuted the first track from
the album, “Weighs,” which can also now be streamed here:
https://soundcloud.com/newwestrecords/white-violet-stay-lost-weighs.
White Violet will head back out on the road throughout the next three months and hit cities
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across the southeast and midwest. The dates will begin on August 21 at The Earl in Atlanta, GA
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and continue on and off this fall before wrapping up on October 19 at the MOTR Pub in
Cincinnati, OH. A current itinerary is below.
Whereas White Violet’s evocative, mostly spare 2012 debut Hiding, Mingling was essentially the
solo work of young singer/songwriter Nate Nelson – augmented by a rotating cast of local Athens,
GA talent – Stay Lost is the sound of a band fully formed. Nelson, together with Lemuel Hayes
(drums), Vaughan Lamb (bass/vocals), and Brad Morgan (guitar), has crafted an album that
brims with an easy confidence, full of chiming melodies that draw from a broad palette. “Weighs”
soars with an effortless, urgent groove; “Fernandina” strikes the perfect balance of taut, catchy
pop; “The Alarmist” refines the breezy AM gold that frequented White Violet’s debut; and closer
“Thankfully” rounds out the album with a driving bassline that underscores the track’s brooding
charms. The 11 songs on Stay Lost form a cohesive whole that exhibits White Violet’s sonic
evolution from bedroom pop to more spacious, spirited songsmithing, while lyrically exploring
moving on and moving forward, leaving one home and searching for another.
White Violet wrote Stay Lost over the past year, with Nelson demoing the songs’ skeletons
before fleshing out each together as a live band. The songs were tracked with engineer Scott
Solter (Centro-matic, Spoon, The Mountain Goats, Superchunk) at his Fidelitorium Recordings
studio in Kernersville, NC, over ten days, with Nelson later recording vocals himself at Cortright
Recordings in Athens, GA. The album was mixed at Solter’s Durham, NC home.
White Violet tour dates:
AUG. 21
AUG. 22
AUG. 23
SEPT. 4
SEPT. 5
SEPT. 6
SEPT. 16
SEPT. 17
SEPT. 18
SEPT. 19
SEPT. 20
OCT. 17
OCT. 18
OCT. 19
ATLANTA, GA
AUGUSTA, GA
ATHENS, GA
FLORENCE, AL
BIRMINGHAM, AL
NASHVILLE, TN
NEW ORLEANS, LA
HOUSTON, TX
AUSTIN, TX
DALLAS, TX
JACKSON, MS
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
CHICAGO, IL
CINCINNATI, OH
THE EARL
SKY CITY
GREEN ROOM
116 E. MOBILE
PARKSIDE CAFÉ
STONE FOX
BEATNIK
WALTER’S DOWNTOWN
MOHAWK (INSIDE)
CITY TAVERN
MARTIN’S
HI-FI
RED LINE TAP
MOTR PUB
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For more information on White Violet and Stay Lost, please contact Amanda Pitts at Cobra
Camanda Publicity, tel: 512.551.9385; emailer: [email protected].
www.whiteviolet.net
www.facebook.com/whitevioletband
www.twitter.com/_WhiteViolet_
www.normaltownrecords.com
www.cobracamanda.com